News and information about wildlife in and around the parish

PEW – Nature Notes for May 2022

Cow Parsley

 

The link below takes you to a version of the PEW article with colour photographs instead of black & white.

NATURE-NOTES-May-2022.pdf

 

Nature Notes – Orchids from June PEW

Colour photographs for the article on p23 of June 2021 PEW

Common Spotted Orchid

Pyramidal Orchid

 

Greater Butterfly Orchid

 

Bee Orchid

 

Plus two bonus photos:

Early Purple Orchid

 

White variant of Green-winged Orchid

Strawberry Line Bird Survey

Those keen on wildlife will be interested to see this report on breeding birds along the Strawberry Line.  It suggests that the concentration of breeding birds along the line is greater than in much of the farmland the route passes through – another reason to support the development of off-road paths.

Lynch Lane Sunshine, Maximum and Minimum Temperatures and Rainfall for 2006 to 2020

Below are links to the data for the months March to June inclusive.  July and August will be added as we get there. The data for March to May have been posted earlier but you would have to chase about to make comparisons between months.  There is a separate file of Photo-voltaic generation totals for each month since 2010 which is a proxy for amount of sunshine.  An attempt is made to suggest which of the years has been sunniest and in which months.

 

2020.4.5 March max min rain and sunshine data 2006 to 2020  

2020.4.30 April max min rain and sunshine data 2006 to 2020

2020.6.1 May max min rain and sunshine data 2006 to 2020

2020.6.30 June max min rain and sunshine data 2006 to 2020

2020.6.30 Monthly kWh totals 2010-2020

Photo Voltaic Panel total generation since 2010 for months March to August. Lynch Lane, Westbury-sub-Mendip

2020.5.29 Monthly kWh totals 2010-2020